e-Audio, 09:47:30
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Release Date: March 4, 2023
Published by: Spotify Audiobooks
Read from: March 6-8, 2025
Glory Broussard Mystery, #2
Source: Library’s Libby (I also received a free e-ARC from Netgalley. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Death, Violence
For Readers Interested In: 2sLGBTQ+, Adult, Audio, Cozy, Dual POV, Fat Leads, Sparkly Covers, Most Anticipated, Mystery, Pre-Ordered, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, Realistic FictionIn the highly anticipated follow up to the award-winning Glory Be, Glory Broussard finds herself enmeshed in the mystery of her ex-husband’s death . . . with an unlikely ally at her side.
After her life was turned upside down by solving the murder of her best friend, Sister Amity Gay, all Glory Brousard wanted was a little peace and quiet. That included getting back to her Sunday morning routine as a bookie in a coffee shop, and planning the annual Mardi Gras gala for her church. But there’s no rest for Glory once the woman who broke up her marriage walks in to CC’s Coffee House and asks for help finding her missing husband. It doesn’t take long before Glory finds him . . . with a knife impaled in his chest.
No one knew the man—and his dark side—better than Glory Broussard, who would rather let the local authorities take the lead. But Glory’s daughter, still reeling from problems of her own, insists on her involvement. Glory’s search for the murderer takes her deep inside the seedy world of Louisiana casinos and racetracks, from their high roller VIP rooms with chatty dealers to stables filled with thoroughbred horses and shady dealings.
As if solving a murder and sparring with the woman who had an affair with her ex-husband isn’t enough, Glory has to get to the bottom of her daughter’s secrets, and there are a few members of her church group who would love to see her fail in her Mardi Gras responsibilities. Walloped with one revelation after another, Glory’s no-nonsense, tellit-like-it-is attitude and strength is tested like never before. But it’s going to take more than that to keep her down in this charming and gripping new novel in the award-winning and critically acclaimed Glory Broussard mystery series.
*MY THOUGHTS*
After finishing Glory’s other book I was desperate for this one. I was so happy to see that there was another one and it was coming out soon. And sure enough, it was exactly what I needed.
So after reading the little excerpt of this book at the end of the first one, I knew I needed this one immediately. I just KNEW Glory was going to say Eff y’all to her ex and his wife before she came back to help them. And that’s exactly what she did.. Glory might have hated them, but she also couldn’t leave her family like that. Especially her daughter. And that little part got me hooked.
So basically, I was hella excited for this. And I loved mostly everything about this. The plot was good, but also kind of weird. I guess I say this because there were so many moving parts to it. The casino, the horses, the relationship between Glory and her daughter and hr daughter and their visitor. And still there was more. It was a lot. But I think that’s what made it a good mystery. There’s multiple POVs and there’s multiple things happening at all times and it makes the reader look in so many different ways. So yeah, I stand by the thought that it was good, but also weird lol
As for the whodunit, I got it wrong. But it wasn’t my fault. This author is one of those that doesn’t give you all the information before it just magically falls in your lap. And this is how the book goes. At least the person is introduced lol It didn’t exactly come as a shock to me so much as the way the person just casually said it that got to me. I caught it at the same time I did and we all froze immediately. (According to the book lol)
I also liked the character growth in this one. I was worried that Glory was gon say “FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFf F**k y’all!” But she was a good sport. And she REALLY surprised me when she okayed someone to help her work on the Mardi Gras Ball, and I was convinced this wasn’t the same Glory when she found our about her daughter. I just KNEW she would have shut down. She DID consult her meds, so I thought that was a start, but I wish she would have taken one. Her daughter on the other hand had no character growth. In fact, she seemed to have character regression. She was so amazing in the first book. Yeah she was going through some things, but I thought she was done with that. But she was back to zero in this one. And normally, it wouldn’t bother me, people change, but when all the other characters clocked it also? Yeah she was doing too much.
One thing I noticed was that there was not another excerpt in the back of this one. And that made me sad. I hope there’s more. I was not a huge fan of cozy mysteries, but this series made me think differently. I really hope we see more of Glory and her daughter! (Also to read this right before, during, or after Mardi Gras while it’s set during Mardi Gras was such a good choice.)
Overall, I give this
